How Ultra-Targeted Facebook Ads Bring You New Leads
With the expansive targeting options now offered by Facebook,
it is nearly impossible not to find your perfect target market using Facebook
advertising.
Are you a dentist? Wedding planner? Auto dealer? Fitness
guru? Florist?
Your ideal audience is waiting on Facebook. Need more
convincing? Check out these targeting examples.
Want to attract people who are looking to plan a wedding?
Show your wedding planning services to the people most likely searching for
your business, newly engaged...
The Biggest Difference Between Email Marketing and Marketing Automation
MailChimp takes on Infusionsoft It is the difference between a bicycle and a Ferrari… it is the difference between communication and money… it is the difference between a shore wave and a swell… but enough of the analogies... Yes, both Infusionsoft and MailChimp and similar systems like Constant Contact, have some basic similar features when it comes to email marketing, and that’s about where it stops. Even most smart marketers don’t yet realize there are major...
What Is Marketing Automation? Is It for You and Your Business?
Marketing Automation
Sure, you’ve heard the term, but it’s likely you don’t
exactly know what this trend is and what it means for you and your
business. In this article, we will educate
you on what exactly marketing automation is and how it will affect your
business. If you want to skip to the
end, here’s what you’ll learn… marketing automation saves you time and makes
you money. Keep reading if you want to
know how.
Marketing Automation
Defined
...
Keeping the Peace: Integrating Sales and Marketing Systems
For many years, businesses have been trying to get marketing and sales to work together. Like oil and water they didn’t mix. It was marketing’s job to bring in the prospects and sales' job to close them. Unfortunately, sales complained about the "low quality" leads marketing was delivering and marketing complained about the sales team’s inability to close business. Good news! Thanks to things like social media marketing and the latest advances in marketing and sales...
Learning to Use CSS Attribute Selectors
CSS Attribute Selectors have been around since CSS2 and expanded as part of CSS3, compatible in all browsers excluding IE6. Even though they are not new, they continue to be overlooked and under used. Using CSS Attribute Selectors is good practice because you can: Target and style specific attributes / values without adding additional code to markup Maintain more semantic code Update style without needing to access markup With CSS Attribute Selectors it is possible to style specific...
Does Your Website Have a Responsive Web Design?
Have you ever visited a website and noticed that the site content was poorly formatted or off the page? You tried to make the best of it… by scrolling left to right, top to bottom – but the site is just aggravating. Even worse, on mobile devices or a tablet, such as a smartphone or iPad, the site doesn’t show at all. This is very bad for your customers, as they are most likely going to find another business to service them. But how can we guarantee an exceptional web...
Implementing the Security Best Practices of 2015 on Your Website
Website security is an ongoing concern for businesses. Compromised security communications have resulted in large amounts of revenue loss and damaged reputations of small and large companies. While extremely important, because of its technical complexities, many companies running websites ignore or fail to keep themselves informed about the latest developments and the practical ways to protect their websites and their customers’ information. In this article we will provide you with some...
SEO Starter Kit for New Business Owners
As a new business owner, you may already have your business plan, products and services ready to be released to the world, but you may not have a customer base yet. If you are a business with a physical storefront, your physical location may be your first priority, as it should be. However, after that or perhaps if your business operates solely online, you will need a website in order to drive traffic and attract new customers. Having an aesthetically pleasing website is important, but almost...
Do You Have a Strong Web Development Team?
In today’s competitive web market, all companies strive to get a leg-up on the others to win over potential clients. There are many types of web clients; some wanting to be hands-off and allowing the web development professionals to do the work, while other businesses need to manage their sites completely and are simply seeking marketing strategies along the way. One thing is for sure; time has proven that if you want to keep your clients happy or obtain new web development clients, you...
What is Periscope and How Are Businesses Using It?
Periscope is a live steaming video app that came out earlier this year with the support of its parent company, Twitter. Plenty of people took notice of the new app; some called it yet another flavor of the month social app. But others of us dove in and discovered what marketers could use the new technology for. Periscope boasts over 10,000,000 users, more than that many individual posts, and impressions of well over 100 billion as of August 19, 2015 according to Salesforce. It’s been a...
Personal Branding: Facebook Profile or Page…. or Both?
Deciding to market yourself on Facebook is a pretty big
commitment. It will require page upkeep, regular posting and in some cases, the
ability to navigate Facebook advertising. Thankfully, the advantages of using
Facebook to market yourself are just as high. But once you’ve decided that
Facebook is right for you, you need to determine whether to move forward using
a Facebook Profile, which most people on Facebook operate under, or a Facebook
Page.
This article isn’t whether to...
3 Common Facebook for Business Mistakes
If you haven’t realized the power of social media in scaling your business, you are missing out on incredible potential for company growth. In the last year, there was almost $15 billion spent on Facebook ads, 30 million business pages, and 1.49 billion monthly active users. Facebook has one of the highest influences on the social marketing space currently, and by ignoring its possibilities, you are limiting the amount of success your online marketing can have. The critical thing to...
What Are Dark Facebook Posts and How Can You Use Them?
Do you have several different audience segments that you’d
like to target on Facebook? Then dark Facebook posts might be your solution.
Dark posts, also known as unpublished posts, are a great
way to tailor different messages to various audiences that don’t have much in
common without posting multiple messages to your page timeline. Dark Posts vs.
Targeted Posts
Dark posts are not the same as targeted posts, though they
have a lot in common. They both allow you to...
A Brief Look Into Local Search
While the algorithms and strategies behind local search can easily get complicated and messy, today will only be a brief look at local search and ways that we can use simple tactics to better our placement in Google’s Local Pack. As you may have recently seen, Google changed their Local Pack feature to now only include three instead of seven local results on a search page. For this reason, it is even more important to take a look at what you can do to improve your local search rankings...
How Email Can Drive SEO Results for Your Business
While the connection between email and SEO isn’t as cut and dry as some of the other methods of search engine optimization, it can be a very useful tool to keep your audience engaged and directing traffic in a way with which other marketing channels just can’t compete. Google doesn’t crawl your individual emails, nor does the amount of subscribers equate to higher rankings, but here are some ways that email can impact your SEO efforts. 1. Audience Engagement Through Email...
Should I Rebrand My Website?
There is a lot to consider when deciding if rebranding your website is the right move. Some businesses bought exact match or partial match domains in the past, such as FlowersAndVases.com, and they are starting to rethink those choices in favor for more brandable website URLs to better match their social media and content marketing efforts. The website FlowersAndVases.com doesn’t stand out at all; it could be any flower shop. Whereas a URL that corresponds with a more definitive business...
Historical Blog Optimization: Reviving Your Blog
Blogging has been an integral part of some businesses like ours for many years now. But with the purpose of blogging and Google algorithms changing over that time, it leaves your blog looking very bleak and not bringing you much new traffic or leads. That’s why at Sales & Marketing Technologies, we have started implementing historical optimization by updating old blog content to meet the current standards. What is Historical Blog Optimization? In its simplest form, historical blog...
4 Easy Steps for Local Search Optimization
According to Google, an estimated 73 percent of all online activity is related to local searches. Very often, customers turn to the Internet to learn more about local businesses and evaluate what companies they’d like to patronize. For local businesses, this information is key when they are thinking about their overall marketing plan. One way to begin to take advantage of these opportunities is by optimizing your Google local listing. These listings are featured prominently in local...
What’s Trending in SEO: Long-tail Keyword Optimization
In the early days of search engine optimization SEO people relied on using short phrases or words to find what they were looking for. As the Internet has evolved and websites offer more and more, people and search engines have changed and are relying on longer search queries to find what they’re looking for. For instance, ‘red dress’ might become ‘red strapless cocktail dress’. This change in search habits changes the way that Internet marketers implement SEO on a...
How Content Marketing Helps Local Businesses
In the competitive landscape of online marketing, your local business can still stand out and attract new customers with the use of creative, high-quality content. Having quality content has always been important for converting sales, but Google has become even more sophisticated over the years and now rewards content that is of real interest and value to customers. Creating good content, and sometimes forking out the cash to get it in front of your audience, can be extremely helpful for...